Princeton, NJ · Roofing and exterior services
Roofing Contractor Serving Princeton and Nearby Communities. Ten minutes from our office in Rocky Hill.
Roof, siding, gutters and everything on the outside, a crew for each trade, one family, one contract. We handle the HOA paperwork and the historic district reviews, and we work slate and copper as well as shingle. Start with a consultation at your house.
Rated 5.0 from 55 Google reviews
We check the roof and walk the whole outside. Nothing to sign, price holds 90 days.
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What your Princeton neighbors say.
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Five stars on Google.
“They went well beyond my expectations by working directly with my HOA and following up with my neighbors to get the architectural change approved before installation.”
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From the job
Manny, Franklin, and the entire team were excellent. They are honest, reliable, and offer very reasonable pricing. From the start, they explained every step of the roof inspection and replacement process clearly. They went well beyond my expectations by working directly with my HOA and following up with my neighbors to get the architectural change approved before installation.
They did a thorough inspection of the roof and the active ceiling leaks inside my home. The project was incredibly well-planned, and they kept me updated in a timely manner—even proactively rescheduling for a clear day when rain was in the forecast. The crew was professional, thorough, and swept the entire perimeter cleanly. They also replaced my gutters the following day.
Highly recommended!
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Five stars on Google.
“Manny came out to our home right away and, from the very beginning, was professional, knowledgeable, and straightforward… The final results were absolutely astonishing! Our home looks completely transformed.”
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From the job
Manny came out to our home right away and, from the very beginning, was professional, knowledgeable, and straightforward. He took the time to explain everything from start to finish, answered all of our questions, and was extremely fair. What had initially seemed like a daunting and stressful project became an easy and genuinely pleasant experience.
His crew was equally impressive. They paid close attention to every detail, took tremendous pride in their work, and were always respectful of our home and property. They kept everything incredibly clean throughout the entire project, and the quality of their workmanship was outstanding.
The final results were absolutely astonishing! Our home looks completely transformed, and we truly couldn't be happier.
If you're considering siding or exterior work on your home, we highly recommend Puljos Roofing and Siding. From start to finish, they exceeded our expectations. Five stars without hesitation!
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Five stars on Google.
“I interviewed and researched seven different companies to get proposals and decided on Pujols. Their pricing was competitive with the other companies, but their product and their Customer Service stood out.”
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From the job
I am thrilled with the final product of my new roof with Pujol's. I interviewed and researched seven different companies to get proposals and decided on Pujols. Their pricing was competitive with the other companies, but their product and their Customer Service stood out. They engendered in me, a trust and confidence in their competency. I am very happy I chose them.
Our work in town
Princeton houses we've worked on.
Real houses, ten minutes from the office. Street name, what we did, and how it turned out.
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Roof and gutters, with the HOA's approval
Lockwood Drive
We handled the architectural change request with the association and followed up with the neighbors for sign-off before the first shingle came off. New roof, then the gutters the next day.
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Copper and slate Jefferson Road
Copper bay roofs and a slate main roof on a brick house, the kind of roof most companies quote around.
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Five houses on one street Cherry Brook Drive
Roof, siding, gutters and trim, one house at a time, as the neighbors watched and called.
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Flat roof replacement Deer Path
A modern house with a flat section that held water. The homeowner interviewed seven companies for this one.
Under the shingles
What we find on Princeton roofs.
This part is our own experience, from the jobs on file, not a rule book. The bigger the trees and the older the roof, the more of these we see:
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Slate that is fine and flashing that is not. Slate lasts a century. The nails, the valleys and the chimney flashing do not. Most "the slate roof is leaking" calls are a flashing or fastener job, not a new roof.
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Copper that was patched with something that is not copper. Tar on a copper valley, aluminum against copper. It leaks again inside a year.
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Flat sections on modern houses that were never meant to hold water as long as they do. Deer Path is one.
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Two or three layers on the big 1950s and 60s colonials, and plank decking with gaps under them.
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Moss and shade. Princeton's trees are the town's best feature and the roof's worst enemy. North slopes under oaks go first.
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The HOA color list. A roof that is the wrong shade of gray gets a letter. We match the list before we order.
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1Good slate, tired flashing
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[Photo: PR-FIND-COPPER]
2A copper valley, patched wrong
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3A flat section holding water
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5Moss on the north slope
That's why the visit comes first. We get on the roof, photograph every part of it, and tell you what's there before anyone talks price.
Permits and approvals
Three approvals can touch a Princeton exterior job. Here is which ones apply to you.
Most Princeton houses need one of these, not all three. We tell you which at the consultation, and we have been through each of them.
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Your homeowners association.
If your neighborhood has one, the roof color and the siding material usually need an architectural change approval before work starts. We prepare the request (photos, product, color), submit it, and follow up with the association and, where it asks, the neighbors. On Lockwood Drive we did exactly that.
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The Historic Preservation Commission.
Twenty-one of Princeton's oldest districts and sites are locally designated, in two types. In a Type 2 district (Central, Mercer Hill, Witherspoon-Jackson, Jugtown, Bank Street, Prospect Avenue) the town reviews work that can be seen from the street. In a Type 1 district (the estates and the oldest sites, such as the Princeton Battlefield and Stony Brook area, Drumthwacket, and the Delaware and Raritan Canal) it reviews work visible from anywhere in the district, and a paint color far out of character.
There are three levels of review, and the level is what decides your timeline:
Ordinary maintenance
- Photos to the preservation officer
- About 2 days
- Work starts
A small in-kind repair needs an email, not a meeting.
Repairing a small area with the same material, or replacing a material that is not historic, with photos emailed to the preservation officer. About two days.
Administrative review
- File the application
- Preservation officer
- 15 to 30 days
- Work starts
Same material, or one the officer agrees looks close.
Replacing a material in kind, or with one the preservation officer agrees looks close: asphalt for asphalt, slate for slate, Hardie fiber cement in place of vinyl or aluminum. No public meeting.
Full commission
- File the application
- Public meeting
- Decision within 45 days
- Work starts
Changing the material or the look goes to the commission.
Slate to shingle, covering wood siding, dormers and additions. The commission hears it at a public meeting and decides within 45 days of it.
For an asphalt roof. A new asphalt roof on an asphalt roof, in a similar color, is an administrative review, and the guidelines name charcoal gray as the color that gets through.
For slate, flashing and gutters. Slate replaced with slate, administrative. Slate replaced with anything else, the full commission. Flashing and gutters in kind, administrative, and half-round gutters with round downspouts are the ones the town prefers.
For siding. Hardie fiber cement in place of vinyl or aluminum is administrative. Covering original wood siding is the full commission.
An approved preservation plan is not a building permit. The town's zoning and building offices are separate. Office of Historic Preservation: 400 Witherspoon St, 2nd floor, (609) 924-5366, HP@princetonNJ.gov.
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The building permit.
For a one- or two-family house, New Jersey treats replacing the roof covering, siding, gutters and trim as ordinary maintenance: no construction permit. A permit is needed when we replace rafters or sheathing, which happens on old houses with rotted decking, and for structural work on additions. An approved HOA or commission review does not replace the permit, and the permit does not replace the review.
How we handle it.
Our consultation already produces most of an application: photos of every side of the house, the product and color, and the spec sheet for it.
We bring a sample of the shingle or siding.
We build the review time into the schedule, so your price holds for the 90 days and your start date holds while the HOA or the town reviews.
If your job needs the full commission, we say so at the visit, not after you've signed.
The commission rules above are from the Municipality of Princeton's draft Historic Guidelines of July 2026, which went to Council in September 2026, and from the New Jersey Uniform Construction Code. Your association's rules are its own. The town's preservation officer has the final word on your house. Call (609) 924-5366.
What we do here
Everything on the outside of a Princeton house.
One company, a crew for each trade, one contract. Each service has its own page with prices and details.
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Roof replacement in Princeton
GAF Timberline HDZ and Ultra HDZ, color matched to the HOA list or the district. Full tear-off, decking checked and photographed.
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Slate and copper
Slate repair and replacement in kind, copper valleys, flashing and bay roofs, standing seam. The work most roofers quote around.
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Siding in Princeton
James Hardie fiber cement, the material the town's own guidelines accept in place of vinyl or aluminum in a historic district, and the one HOAs rarely argue with.
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Gutters and soffit in Princeton
Half-round gutters and round downspouts for the historic districts, 6-inch seamless K-style everywhere else, soffit and fascia done at the same time.
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Windows and doors in Princeton
ProVia windows and Therma-Tru doors, installed by the same crew that does your siding. Same openings, same look, the trim kept.
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Flat and low-slope roofs
Modern houses and additions with a flat section. Deer Path is the example.
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Our office
130 Washington St, Rocky Hill. Ten minutes from Nassau Street.
130 Washington St
Rocky Hill, NJ 08553
Mon-Sat 9am to 7pm, Sun 11am to 3pm
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Close enough that the owner stops by during the job, and that the three years of Stewardship visits after it are easy to keep.
Three kinds of Princeton house
Princeton is three towns in one. We work in all three.
There is the old Princeton: the streets around Nassau Street and Princeton University, Mercer Hill, Witherspoon-Jackson, Jugtown, Bank Street, and the estates and farmsteads out toward Stony Brook. Those houses have slate, copper, wood shingles and trim that was cut by hand, and most of them sit in one of the town's 21 historic districts and sites. Exterior work there goes through the Historic Preservation Commission.
There is the Princeton in between: big colonials and split-levels from the 1950s and 60s on wooded lots, no HOA, no commission, just a lot of roof, a lot of trees, and a lot of shade for moss to grow in.
And there is the newer Princeton: the neighborhoods built from the 1970s on, where a homeowners association reviews the color and the material before anything goes on the roof or the walls. Three kinds of house, three sets of rules, one company that has been through all of them.
- 1756Nassau Hall opens and the College of New Jersey moves to town.
- 1777The Battle of Princeton, January 3.
- 1783Congress meets in Nassau Hall; Princeton is the capital for four months.
- 1896The college becomes Princeton University.
- 2013The borough and the township become one Princeton.
Questions
Questions Princeton homeowners ask us
My HOA has to approve the roof. Do you handle that?
Yes. We put together the request with the photos, the product and the color, send it to the association, and follow up until it is approved. We have done this in Princeton, and the client wrote about it on Google.
My house is in a historic district. Can I still get a normal shingle roof?
Usually, yes. Asphalt replacing asphalt in a similar color is an administrative review, about 15 to 30 days, no public meeting. The town's guidelines name charcoal gray as the shingle color that fits. Replacing slate or wood with asphalt is a different story: that goes to the full commission, and we tell you that at the visit.
Do you repair slate, or only replace it?
Repair first. Most slate problems are the flashing, the nails or a few broken pieces, not the slate. We replace in kind where we can, and we do not put a non-copper patch on a copper valley.
Can I put Hardie siding on a house in the district?
In most cases, yes, by administrative review, when it replaces vinyl, aluminum or asbestos. Covering original wood siding is a full commission review, and the town usually says no. We tell you which case you are in before you decide.
How much does a new roof cost in Princeton?
The same as everywhere we work: $650 to $720 per square (100 square feet of roof), depending on size and shingle line. Princeton's bigger houses run higher on total, not on rate. Slate, copper and flat sections are priced on their own and shown in the report. The full table is on the roof replacement page.
How long does the approval add?
An HOA: usually two to four weeks. The commission: about 2 days, 15 to 30 days, or 45 days after a meeting, depending on the level. We build it into the schedule so your price and start date hold.
Roofing & exterior consultation in Princeton